The Dillon tribune., 1887-09-23
MONTANA CONDENSED,
From Our Territorial Exchanges, and
Other Sources.

Philipsbury is to be made into summer
resort next year, according to the Mail
Oats are selling at one cent per pound in
Bozeman.
The crops of Montana are better this
year than usual.
Billings merchants retail granulated ST.
gar at SK cents per pound.
Mike Goldberg, lately Of Glendale, has
opened harness shop at Boulder.
On the arrival Of the first train at Phil.
ipsburg, last week, the band played and
champagne flowed.
The Montana Iron Works, at Butte, has
just completed an iron front for the Ana.
conda Opera House, which Messrs. Morgan
Evans and Msrcut Daily are building
The Government has concluded to bring
suits against Montana cattle companies for
fencing the public domain. The majority
Of the suits will be against Custer county
outfits.
At Anaconda on tire 10TH man named
O'Bren died suddenly while sitting in
chair in saloon on the corner of front and
Main streets His death was probably due
to heart disease.
Col. John c. &. Thornton, on eof the we'll.
known and most respected citizens Of Mon.
tana, died at Butte on the 18th. He was g
years Of age and had lived in the Terrific.
ry since 1865.
About zoo bridge carpenters will soon
be at work finishing up the trestles and
bridges on the Marysville branch Of the
Northern Pacific, so as to get it into opera.
ton as soon as possible.
A band Of something over 1000 sheep.
belonging to N. D. T. Weatherman, while
grazing on Cayuse Creek, a tributary ol
Sweet Grass, were swept away on Tuesday
of last week by cloud burst.
Work on the big tunnel on the Central
line between Helena and Butte, is going on
in good shape. At the south end the work.
men have gotten in 326 feet and on the
: north end 6s9 feet, total Of 9S5 feet. Al
the long tunnel near Butte on the 10th the
south end was in ,o7 feet and the NORTH
end was in 1,1 feet, a total Of 3:S feet.
Mssoula Times: On an invitation ex
:. tended BY Mr.. Geo. B. Hartman we hae
the pleasure Of looking through his flint
orchard. His apple and crab apple trees
- are heavily laden, while his plum and pea
II trees have fair abundance on them. Any
:. one thinking that fruit won't grow in Mon
u tana should visit Mr.. HIS garden. Th,
e fruit is sound, large and Of excellent flavor
On Wednesday of last week, at Magin
mis-, Antoine Gendron and Charles Pouliu
two Frenchmen, had some words over
bride, when Gendron, who is the pos
shoemaker, entered his shop, procured
. gun and deliberately shot Poulin in III
:. back, the bullet passing through the hear
:. = and killing him instantly. Gendron wa
: arrested and placed in the guard house a
:. the post.
:" A special to Helena, from Portland, O,
:, egon, Of the 10Th says: "On Saturday tn
y. free .for-all race at Salem was contested fo
~ bv Little Joe and Ranchero. The frs
- third and fifth heats were taken by Littl
Toe, with Ranchero less than a length bt
" hind. In the second and fourth heats tn
= horses were exactly even, and they wer
~ declared dead heats. The best time was i
the third heat, ,.734.
- ;, On last Sunday afternoon Birdie John
=" son, one of the denizens OF Galena stree
- Butte, was found dead on the floor of he
- room by Hattie Hill, her landlady. \ col
= oner's Jury returned Il verdict that the ct
ceased came to her death from an ovel
- dose of morphine and chloral, administers
bv her own hand. They were unable to dt
- teruire whether the dose was taken wit
suicidal intent OF not
An account was published III the la!
~ TH1B, NJ of the murder Of John Embod,
~ scventv.vear old ,ancher living on tn
. Dearborn, within the limits of Lewis an
=, Clarke county. Geo. Gomas, a half.breee
~ was declared by coroner's jury to be tn
~ murderer OF Embody. Gomas stole tw
" horses on the afternoon he committed tn
murder to facilitate his escape. Coma
pot as far as Missoula with the stolen an
mails and he was arrested at that place.
e .lIa.1isouiuu: 1t is stated apparently o
hi good authority, that a contract has bee
;r let to Mcssrs Barber n Green, for the gr;
- ding of forty miles OF the railway betwee